Engineering Operations Leader: Quality & Release

Standard Life; City of Westminster; On-site; GBP 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Standard Life is seeking a Head of Engineering Operations to lead the capability underpinning engineering quality, delivery assurance, environments, release discipline and operational resilience. You will shape the operational backbone of engineering and drive automation, metrics and quality gates across teams and partners.

You will collaborate across Digital Information Office and Enterprise Technology to raise standards, modernise practices including DevSecOps, AI-enabled software delivery,

Qualifications

• Senior engineering operations leadership experience in a complex, regulated environment.
• Experience delivering with DevSecOps, test automation and deployment automation.
• Ability to balance pace with control and embed standards, quality gates and resilience.

Responsibilities

• Own and evolve the Engineering Operations capability across quality engineering, environments, release readiness, engineering assurance, operational controls, engineering risk and continuous improvement.
• Lead engineering risk management with attestation and alignment to risk frameworks.
• Drive automation including automated standards compliance, test automation, DevSecOps, IaC and developer tooling.
• Provide leadership for quality assurance, environment management and release governance to evidence standards and deliver safely.
• Oversee standards across partners and outsource providers with outcome monitoring and metrics.

Skills

Engineering operations leadership

Quality engineering

Release management

Environments management

DevSecOps

Job description

Standard Life is seeking a Head of Engineering Operations to lead the capability underpinning engineering quality, delivery assurance, environments, release discipline and operational resilience. You will shape the operational backbone of engineering and drive automation, metrics and quality gates across teams and partners.

You will collaborate across Digital Information Office and Enterprise Technology to raise standards, modernise practices including DevSecOps, AI-enabled software delivery,